BOOK I PART IV
SECTIONVII. CONCLUSION OF THISBOOK
But before I launch out into those immense
depths of philosophy, which lie before me, I
find myself inclined to stop a moment in my
present station, and to ponder that voyage,
which I have undertaken, and which undoubt-
edly requires the utmost art and industry to be
brought to a happy conclusion. Methinks I am
like a man, who having struck on many shoals,
and having narrowly escaped shipwreck in
passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to
put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten
vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as
to think of compassing the globe under these
disadvantageous circumstances. My memory
of past errors and perplexities, makes me dif-
fident for the future. The wretched condition,
weakness, and disorder of the faculties, I must